by Harvey Kunz

Created on: December 13, 2008

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DRUGS-THE OTHER SIDE

America, the Land of the Free and Home of the Drugs: Once upon a time, all patented medicines were considered quackery (snake oils). Doctors might prescribe either licorice or honey and lemon for a sore throat, garlic and vitamin C for a cold, baking soda for indigestion and menthol and steam for nasal congestion. Castor oil kept you regular and cod liver oil avoided colds and kept you generally healthy, at a total cost of about a buck a month-and it worked! How times have changed. We have been bombarded for the past 80 years with trillions of dollars of patent medicine propaganda in every conceivable media. As a result, our medical system is totally drug oriented. Drug companies fund our medical schools and dictate SAPs (standard accepted procedures) for all illnesses. Natural cures that worked for hundreds of years are now ridiculed as old wives tales'.

Drugs are used for everything! The brainwashing is so complete that most people no longer even realize there is a viable alternative. The news media is so dependent on drug advertising income that they can't be objective, and the side they present is all most people ever see. This brainwashing is so invasive that the first thing an average person asks their doctor is hardly ever, "What can I do to help my body heal itself?" It is inevitably, "What drug should I take?" They feel cheated if they walk out without a prescription in their hand!

A biased view? We would like to balance the scale and present the other sidefacts modern medicine avoids. Walter Willett, editorial writer for JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) surprisingly (for a drug-supported publication) summed it up when he said, "The commonly held belief that aging routinely requires pharmacological management has unfortunately led to neglect of diet and lifestyle as the primary means to achieve healthy aging". We could not have said it better!

Drugs are the largest business in this country and second only to petroleum in the whole world. The U.S. makes and consumes over half the world's drugs-29 million prescriptions per hour. We pay over three times as much per person as any other country for medical care, have by far the most doctors, hospitals and elaborate diagnostic equipment per capita, yet we have the highest rate of all five major degenerative diseases: heart, arthritis (and osteoporosis), diabetes, cancer, and bronchial, and we are the last of all industrialized nations (#28) in longevity. Could this

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